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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (713594)	11/16/2005 10:42:18 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Show me the clause of the federal Constitution that gives it any rights in the question of what anyone puts in their bodies. I failed to find it. Most people agree that substance abuse should be managed and restricted by the government to some extent. At what cost? We tried this experiment in the 1920s, remember? It was such a success that it was discontinued. It did a great deal of good for the Mafia, though- -just like other drugs are now making other criminal gangs rich. Maybe the answer is make their activities no longer criminal. The criminal level of profits they realize will evaporate overnight. So will those gangs. My own opinion of government intervention for most issues is usually dependent on the financial costs required. Then you should rethink this one. Start with this: Number of people in U.S. prisons and jails, 2001: 1,965,495 .................................................. Average annual percent growth, U.S. incarcerated population, 1990-2000249: 5.35% prisonpolicy.org Of the country’s 2 million prisoners, 450,000 are incarcerated in prison or jail for drug offenses—more people than the European Union, an entity with a 100 million more people has in prison for all crimes combined. States and the federal government continue to spend about $10 billion a year imprisoning drug offenders, and billions more on the “War on Drugs.” soros.org